Eleanor Marie 'Cookie' Carlson

Sept. 9, 1922 - April 6, 2013

Posted:
04/16/2013 12:33:39 PM MDT

Eleanor "Cookie" Carlson

Eleanor Marie "Cookie" Carlson, 90, beloved wife, mother, grammie and great-grandma, was called home by her Lord on April 6, 2013, in Sidney, Neb., at Sidney Regional Med Center. Visitation will be at from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Thursday, April 18, at Chaney-Reager Funeral Home. Funeral services will be at 1:32 p.m. Friday, April 19, at Christ United Methodist Church in Sterling, where she became a member in 1950. The Rev. Ed Bigler III will be officiating. Burial will follow at the Peetz Cemetery.

Cookie, the middle child of seven children, was born Sept. 9, 1922, to Harry A. and Ida E. (Marks) Cook on their family farm. Eleanor grew up in a stron Christian household on the family farm in the Kelly-Leroy area. She attended and graduated from the Hardin School with her siblings and multiple cousins.

Upon completing high school, Eleanor worked as an upstairs maid for the Buell family in Denver. She met and became engaged to Warren R. "Bonnie" Carlson in 1942 in Sterling, where she has resided since. After vigilantly awaiting for his return from the service in the Pacific Theater in 1943-1946, she married Bonnie on Feb. 9, 1946. To this marriage, a son, Olyn Royd, and a daughter, Krysti Kay, were born.

In Sterling, she was employed at Montgomery Wards, the Elk's Club, JC Penney's, and Hested's. Cookie maintained an active lifestyle by being involved in Extension Homemakers, serving as a Laubach Literary Tutor and a Vietnamese family daily contact person. Cookie served on the board for the Gary DeSoto Building, Logan County 4-H Foundation and the Logan County Literacy Coalition.

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She was a 4-H leader for more than 30 years, teaching many young people to sew, and was so proud of being a four-generation 4-H family. She served as a county fair judge for 20 years. One of her greatest jows was following her grandkids' activities, as well as being a crafter, quilter, stained-glass artist and gardener. She enjoyed the outdoors, fishing and camping in the Rocky Mountains.

She demonstrated her Christian faith by serving in the United Methodist Women locally and in the district, Church Women United, as well as a board member for the Logan County Cooperative Ministries.

She is also survived by her older sister, Velma Alice Richard; and two sisters-in-law, Mildred Cook and Ginny Cook; and one brother-in-law, Dale Andersen.

Preceding her in death were her brothers, Lester Marcus Cook, Herbert Merle Cook, Arlo Eugene Cook, Elmo Armin Cook; and her sister, Inez Ethel Anderson. Also greeting her in paradise are her beloved husband, Warren, and grandson, Chad Arron Nienhueser.

Memorials have been established to Christ United Methodist Church, Logan County 4-H or the Chad Nienhueser Memorial Scholarship.